Locally-grown peaches, sweet corn, green beans, eggplant, and tomatoes

You might remember that last year we discovered a whole network of farm stands and u-pick vegetable growers in Willcox…except that we couldn’t seem to find one that had anything when we were there (and they are a good drive off the main road). Well today that was all remedied when we went to Apple Annie’s produce stand and fruit orchard.

I am anxious to make some baba ganoush from the lovely eggplants, which we picked ourselves. (After seeing how big their plants are though, I’m less confident about my own.:) I am also going to make a peach pie this week with 10 lbs. of organic peaches we got.

They also had zucchini that were the size of watermelons, but we are well stocked on those from our own farm. They said that they will have all this stuff and more through October. We’re looking forward to going back. During apple season, I may bake some pies to sell at the farm stand.

We also got the rest of our furniture out of storage in Willcox and into the guest room. (We got the final cove put down this morning.) It is quite a bit of fun to have our own stuff back and to see things that we haven’t seen in a year and a half. I am most missing all my books and am excited to get them back on shelves.

When we unloaded the bed back at the house, you could see that there had been some kind of water leakage somewhere in the process. It was packed in a big corrugated box, but we were worried what we’d find when we unpacked it. Upon opening it though, we found that the whole mattress and box springs had been shrinkwrapped tightly before going in the box. Again, we thanked Charles our mover for his amazing professionalism.

After we got everything unloaded, we ended the day with a fire, chips and guacamole, and watermelon margaritas. The stars were amazing.